From the Shtetl to the Stage
Title | From the Shtetl to the Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Granach |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1351518402 |
Alexander Granach, who died while he was acting on Broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the German stage. This is the account of a daring, curiosity-filled, and perceptive Jewish child from poor towns in Galicia who was seized with a passion for the theater when he saw his first show at the age of 14. He overcame great odds to become a leading stage and film actor in Weimar Germany - and he had to have both legs broken to do it! Born in what is now southern Ukraine, Granach began working at the age of six in his father's bakery, where his heavy tasks left him visibly knock-kneed. With very little formal education but open for adventure and willing to work hard, Alexander ran away several times, the last time to Berlin, at the age of 16, where his talent and charm won him a place in Max Reinhardt's theater school. His career was abruptly interrupted by World War I and his time as a prisoner of war in Italy, but after a daring escape and the end of the war he resumed his rise to prominence in German artistic life. A natural storyteller, Granach's autobiography captures equally the charms, adventures, and trials of his shtetl days, the horrors of trench warfare, and the glamour and excitement of the German theater before Hitler came to power.
From the Shtetl to the Stage
Title | From the Shtetl to the Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Granach |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1351518410 |
Alexander Granach, who died while he was acting on Broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the German stage. This is the account of a daring, curiosity-filled, and perceptive Jewish child from poor towns in Galicia who was seized with a passion for the theater when he saw his first show at the age of 14. He overcame great odds to become a leading stage and film actor in Weimar Germany - and he had to have both legs broken to do it! Born in what is now southern Ukraine, Granach began working at the age of six in his father's bakery, where his heavy tasks left him visibly knock-kneed. With very little formal education but open for adventure and willing to work hard, Alexander ran away several times, the last time to Berlin, at the age of 16, where his talent and charm won him a place in Max Reinhardt's theater school. His career was abruptly interrupted by World War I and his time as a prisoner of war in Italy, but after a daring escape and the end of the war he resumed his rise to prominence in German artistic life. A natural storyteller, Granach's autobiography captures equally the charms, adventures, and trials of his shtetl days, the horrors of trench warfare, and the glamour and excitement of the German theater before Hitler came to power.
From the Shtetl to the Screen
Title | From the Shtetl to the Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Stuart Littman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Theater, Yiddish |
ISBN |
The Golden Age Shtetl
Title | The Golden Age Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691168512 |
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."
Out of the Shtetl
Title | Out of the Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Sinkoff |
Publisher | Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Hasidism |
ISBN | 193067516X |
From Shtetl to Stage
Title | From Shtetl to Stage PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 23 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Cantors (Judaism) |
ISBN |
Fiddler on the Roof
Title | Fiddler on the Roof PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Bock |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780879101367 |
Provides the music and lyrics for the long-running Broadway musical